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Books

A prose Browning John Stewart Collis T o start with we can say at once that Mr Donald Thomas has here given us the Works as well as the Man. Too often in biography the work is......

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Peter Quennell O n 18 December, 1812, a new Russian ambassador, Count Christopher Lieven, presented his credentials at the Court of St James. Though loyal, conscien- tious and......